SEO for a small site
Primary keyword: sitemap lastmod honesty · Intent: informational · One URL, one query. Not a city doorway.
Change the date when the facts change. A nightly lastmod on a frozen page is a costume.
This article is written for people searching sitemap lastmod honesty (informational intent). It is not a city doorway and not a ranking package. Product facts we will defend: Free is live on you.bizzit.io after Google sign-in, 50 Cipher turns, no daily cap. Pro is $12 a month. First-year domain names bought here carry a 25% markup. We do not invent competitor prices or statistics.
Dates help crawlers and humans. Lying dates train both to distrust you. A nightly lastmod on a frozen page is a costume. Our articles carry published and modified times. They should move when we edit meaning, not when we bust a CSS cache. A sitemap that stamps every URL today is noise. True lastmod on the rows you actually changed is enough. Hours that changed are a real modified time. A font tweak is not a news event. Neither is a synonym shuffle. Google has said not to use dates as a trick. We will not. Freshness theater is not a SKU.
Set lastmod and visible updated dates on a Bizzit page only when the information changed. Do not stamp every sitemap row with today. Do not backdate to look old. Free is you.bizzit.io. Pro is $12 a month. Freshness theater is not a SKU.
The pass
- List pages you actually edited this week
- Move modified dates only on those
- Keep published dates stable
- Do not rewrite lastmod on the whole sitemap
- Fix hours and prices when they change
- Leave frozen posts frozen
When a date should move
Price you will honor. Hours. A feature we shipped, like Video. A correction of a false claim.
When it should not
A CSS cache bust. A synonym shuffle. A hope that Google will recrawl. A blog mill of dated clones.
Visible versus sitemap
If the byline says updated, the sitemap may say so too. Do not show updated and leave the body identical as a trick. Readers notice. So do policies.
Video jobs
A cut you re-render is a file, not a new indexable HTML page. Do not mint /blog/cut-april-2. The tool URL stays /tools/video. See the schedule guide.
Tenant sites
If Cipher rebuilds copy, that can be a real update. If nothing changed but a restock script ran, do not fake a homepage news date. Overnight jobs are not a date costume. Tell the truth in the brief.
Limits and caveats
We will not invent Google’s recrawl timer. Honest dates still help humans.
If a sentence would require a competitor SKU we have not verified, or a statistic we did not measure, it does not belong here. That is how this library stays useful instead of becoming spun SERP copies.
What Bizzit will and will not do
You describe the business. Cipher builds a site. You preview it. You publish on a Bizzit hostname for free after Google sign-in. Free includes 50 Cipher turns with no daily cap. Pro is $12 a month for unlimited Cipher edits, a custom domain, overnight jobs from the brief, checkout on your payment account, no Bizzit badge. Domain names you buy here show a first-year price with a 25% markup on the registrar wholesale. We do not take a cut of your sales. We are not a CRM, a dispatcher, or a review factory. If a sentence would require us to pretend we shipped a feature we have not shipped, it does not belong on this page.
Cost: the slug is free. The name is $12 a month plus the domain.
Stay on you.bizzit.io until the page is doing work. Twelve months of Pro is $144. The registrar line is separate. Cancel Pro from the account if the month is dead; the domain you bought is still yours to keep or let lapse. Read pricing and cancel anytime before you treat $12 as a personality.
What to do after you read this
If this page answered the query, open Create with the nouns from your own business. Not a slogan. If it did not, you are probably in the wrong cluster: go back to the blog hub or SEO for a small site. Do not spin a second URL for a synonym. One intent per page is the whole point of this library.
Primary keyword for this page: sitemap lastmod honesty. That is the query we wrote for. Related links below are neighboring intents, not doorway clones.
Tools that actually do this job
These are public pages. Use them when the job is this job. They are not a second product you have to buy.
Primary sources
Questions people actually ask
Should every blog post show updated?
Only if you updated it. Ours do when the catalog says modified.
Is date in the title good?
Only if the query needs a year and you will maintain it. Stale years look foolish.
Backdating authority?
No. Put the real publish day.
Pro?
$12 does not include a freshness algorithm we sell. Edit when facts change.
Sitemap lastmod required?
Useful if true. Optional if you will lie. Prefer omit over fiction.